Word: potful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silence in a place described as a ''cross between a horse stable and a potato cellar.'' The walls were of rough planks; the glass roof, patched in places, leaked when it rained. There were three battered deal tables covered with apparatus, a few chairs, a pot-bellied stove. On the asphalt floor lay coarse mats...
...pistol cracked. Up went the wire around the turtles in the ring's centre. The Dog House's Hot Dog (by Experiment, out of Mongrel) pulled in its neck and went to sleep. The Medical Clinic's Gluteus Maximus (by Cracked Pot, out of Whack) plunged madly toward the finish line, saw a bug, lost interest. Neck up and bobbing. Maple Leaf I (Buy British, out of God's Country) plugged steadily toward the 38-ft. circle's rim. A breeze whipped the Union Jack stuck on its back as it stepped across the line...
...Fusiliers. Like many of his English generation he was a battle-scarred veteran when he went up to Oxford (St. John's College) as an undergraduate. Already established as one of the outstanding poets of the War, he turned his pen to many a subject to keep the pot boiling, wrote on everything from the interpretation of dreams to the future of swearing. Other occupations included keeping a shop on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, school-teaching in Egypt. His friend Shaw once helped him out of a financial slough by presenting him with one of the rare...
Whoever conceived "Manhattan Melodrama" showing at the State this week, evidently desired a rest from the arduous tasks of producing distinguished films. Possibly it was the title which suggested the dramatic possibilities which the melting pot of the world possesses. At any rate, the producer must have had a grand time concocting this extravaganza of human emotions...
...Dodd, Mead, last autumn, discovered a mutual interest in munitions makers, decided to collaborate. Each had already written one book: Engelbrecht, a study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Hanighen, a biography of Santa Anna. Roving Newshawk George Seldes, brother to Litterateur Gilbert Seldes, has taken the lid off many a pot of trouble, stirred it with journalistic zeal. Onetime reporter on the Chicago Tribune, he has dabbled in Art, is now a freelance, has written four books (You Can't Print That!, Can These Things Be!, The Vatican...